Gothics

Gothics is a 4,736-foot mountain in New York’s Adirondack Great Range, the state’s tenth-highest peak and one of the 46 High Peaks in Adirondack Park. In the town of Keene, it was named for three arched summits and broad slides that suggested Gothic architecture; although often associated with an 1857 naming trip by Orson Schofield Phelps and Frederick W. Perkins, the name was in use by at least 1850. The first recorded ascent came on October 11, 1875, by Verplanck Colvin, Roderick L. McKenzie, and Ed Phelps. Its summit supports rare alpine tundra and, in clear weather, broad views of nearby peaks and the Ausable Lakes.

Keene, New York · United States